. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. DEBATING CLUB literary, philanthropic, and civic. Inall of them the director insists that themembers conduct their meetings accord-ing to the rules of parliamentary pro-cedure, and valuable lessons in practicalcivics and self-government have beenlearned by the members of the 774 clubsorganized during the past year. In all the clubs written minutes of theproceedings have been regularly kept andthe secretarys duties have been made of considerable importance. In most ofthe
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. DEBATING CLUB literary, philanthropic, and civic. Inall of them the director insists that themembers conduct their meetings accord-ing to the rules of parliamentary pro-cedure, and valuable lessons in practicalcivics and self-government have beenlearned by the members of the 774 clubsorganized during the past year. In all the clubs written minutes of theproceedings have been regularly kept andthe secretarys duties have been made of considerable importance. In most ofthem there has been an attempt to havesome literary work, even though it be ofthe most elementary nature. It mustnot be forgotten, however, that the greatmajority of the club members are hardat work during the day. The clubmeetings must, therefore, be recreativein character, and not so severely mentalas to discourage the attendance of thosewe are striving to reach. Some of the. A BOYS STUDY ROOM 14 NEW BOSTON purely literary clul)s have clone verycreditable work, and excellent debateswith other clubs have been debates with other centers,and open meetings of a general literarynature, have furnished larger audiencesfor the aspiring young speakers thancould be given in the limited circle of theclub. Probably the most successful pub-lic meeting was that of the IMaxwellCivic League of the E. R. C. No. 141,Brooklyn, at which an audience of over1,20() enjoyed a delightful program, thechief number of which was a dramatiza-tion of a meeting of the Board of Estimateand Apportionment. If Mayor Gay Prendergast, and the othermembers of the real board, had beenpresent to listen to arguments advancedby the young speakers, an increasedaj)propriation would surely be grantedto the Board of Education. Severaldramatic clubs have flourished, andwhile the plays produced have beenstaged with great difficulty and elaboratecostumes could not be
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